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The attainment of all kinds of combined freedoms has not been able to prevent differences in levels of empathy and awareness being abused in justification of a sense of superiority, with "quality", that evil concept, causing intelligence to blur into illusion and veracity into obstinacy. Where the current level of awareness in a broader political and civilian sense keeps conflicts more or less non-violent and within human proportions, the artistic world has its self-proclaimed elite which, blinded by its own mistaken sense of superiority, freely indulges in revulsion while trying with all its might to elevate its own standards into rule of procedure. Then again, who am I. You should see me foaming at the mouth when sizing up varying forms of figuration - with outrage as well as inability and embarrassment, for whenever I try to convince myself that I'm right I find there's hardly ever a satisfactory explanation to hand, so that I have no choice but to admit grudgingly that third parties too are entitled to their ideal of beauty and magnificence and that the suggestion of evil motives would be an immoral one - just as immoral, in fact, as the moral rhetoric of the grudging side of artistic critique, which is powered on by the inherent assumption that those whose creations fall short of the expectations of the common denominator of the cultural minority with the fattest finger in the pie are dubious individuals who are deliberately seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of the cultural West. In terms of senseless brutality no-one even comes close to the artistic press verbally. Of course this too is anchored in revulsion, but that would never do as a yardstick for the unconstrained collection of news, indulging in revulsion being a strictly private pastime. Or perhaps all this verbal force should inspire you to consume that which has been cut down, as a way of ensuring your daily dose of revulsion? Surely you too are aware, in all modesty, of the hallmark of a fledgling democracy, i.e. that it is more than ample simply to trick the majority into believing that their wishes matter? But as obvious as this may be to you, I have to confess that it seems I still haven't seen the light, so I'll continue pondering for the time being. |
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